CPB Contractors has won a US$241m (A$370m) contract to help turn the Royal Australian Air Force’s Townsville base in northern Queensland into the country’s new “Army Capital”. The upgrade is…

The government of New Zealand has cancelled a light rail project for Auckland after the cost ballooned from US$9.8bn to as much as $19bn. The project was announced in 2018,…

Queensland state water company Sunwater has hired CPB Contractors and civil engineering firm Georgiou to build a replacement wall for the unfixable Paradise Dam on the Burnett River near Bundaberg.…

A consortium of Vinci subsidiary Cobra IS, Acciona, and energy distributor Endeavour Energy has signed a commitment deed contract for a €6.15bn public-private partnership (PPP) project to erect a transmission…

Construction management software vendor Procore Technologies launched its Australia and New Zealand University Programme this month at an event in Sydney co-hosted by the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB). Under…

Thiess Group company Maca Civil has been picked to design and build the M80 Ring Road Completion in Melbourne, Australia in partnership with Acciona and designer Aecom. The project will…

A team made up of Spain’s Acciona, Cimic subsidiary CPB Contractors and Italy’s Ghella has signed a US$2.4bn tunnelling contract for Melbourne’s Suburban Rail Loop (SRL) East project. The Suburban…

Britain’s builders are being offered a £6,000 sweetener to lure them to sunny Western Australia. The Australian state is experiencing a construction boom on the back of multi-million-pound government investment…

Cimic Group companies UGL and CPB Contractors have been selected by Transgrid to deliver the western section of the HumeLink high voltage electricity transmission project. Spanning some 385km, HumeLink will…

Australian contractor Broad Construction is to build a Robotics and Advanced Manufacturing Centre in the campus of a Queensland university. Technical and Further Education Queensland (TAFE) is working on the…

The Australian state of New South Wales (NSW) is attracting international attention for its approach to replacing flammable cladding on multi-unit residential buildings. Launched in March 2021 after the state…

UGL, a subsidiary of Australian contractor Cimic, has won a five-year contract with a US$50m ceiling to provide power-line maintenance and construction services in the Australian state of Victoria. The…

Australian architect Contreras Earl has revealed its design for a second “vertiport” in Merlbourne. This will handle flying taxis at Batman Park and follows an earlier design for the city’s…

Australia’s Department of Defence has picked Cimic Group’s CPB Contractors for the early contractor involvement development phase for upgrades at air force bases Curtin and Learmonth in Western Australia. The…

A joint venture between rejuvenated contractor Clough and Queensland engineer BMD has for the second time won a contract to build a shiplift in the northern Australian port of Darwin for the Northern Territory state government.

A consortium led by Cimic subsidiary CPB Contractors, Italian civil engineer Ghella and Spanish contractor Acciona are in line for a contract to excavate 16km of twin-bore tunnels for Melbourne’s…

Cimic Group subsidiary Pacific Partnerships will develop, manage, and operate the 300MWdc Hopeland Solar Farm in Queensland, Australia. The solar farm will have the potential to generate enough electricity to…

UGL, a subsidiary of Australian contractor Cimic, has won a contract to provide strategic advice, planning, supply management, operations and maintenance for the Australian Defence Force’s (ADF) fuel network. The…